In a survey of 2,000 women aged between 18-34, nearly half said they had suffered verbal or physical harassment from a stranger

She said: “As I went to walk away the boy on the back of the bike said, ‘I’ll run the pair of you over’ and they drove off, so I thought that was it and then all of a sudden I hear the bike coming back, so I’ve turned around, by this point they were feet away from us.

“I pushed my little brother out of the way but I didn’t get a chance to move and the bike went straight into me.

“The bars of the bike the handle- bars went into my ribcage and I went underneath the bike.”

She added: “I couldn’t walk for two weeks because the internal bruising was that severe and that was all because of me not responding to ‘Are you alright, darling?’.”

A clip from the documentary shows Naomi’s stroll around Camden in the rain.

She is dressed in a black bomber jacket and skinny black jeans, and is holding an umbrella.

About a metre behind her is a man holding a camera.

“I noticed there was a guy taking photographs but didn’t really notice him,” she said.

Naomi turned around, confronted the man and asked him to stop following her

“I’ve had it before on the tube where people are slyly taking photos, just unbelievable,” she said.

“My own personal experience, I must’ve been 15 or 16 coming home from college and a guy on a bike stopped and touched me and from then to now it could be as little as a beep in a car to men even following me.

“So it doesn’t matter whether they’re in London, whether they’re in Newcastle, whether they’re in Birmingham, or Nottingham, or any other city for that matter, they should be reporting them to their local police for them to take action. It’s completely unacceptable.”

The man, who is not identified, replies: ‘Yes. If you smile, I’ll do it’

Rachel Krys of the End Violence Against Women Coalition added: “Sexual harassment is not a come on, it’s not a precursor to a relationship, it’s about men controlling what women do and wanting to stop women being free to walk down the streets, to just take the space that they’re entitled to.

“It’s about saying, ‘I’m in control of this space, I’m in control of you, I have a right to comment on your body, to comment on what you’re wearing.’

“And so it’s a really important issue that we need to challenge, and it’s the men we need to challenge, and we need to stop the perpetrators harassing women in the street.”

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Sue Fish said: “We’re never going to police or arrest our way out of misogyny this is about helping men and women, girls and boys to understand what a healthy relationship is about, and actually helping to teach young people about boundaries, about what’s acceptable, what’s not, what’s lawful, what’s not.”

According to a new ITV survey, half of women say they have been sexually harassed in public – with one in five saying they had suffered violence as a result.

Women urged to report sexual harassment on street to the police in Harassment Uncovered on ITV

A poll of 2,000 women aged between 18 and 34 for ITV’s Tonight programme found that 29 per cent of those surveyed say they had been verbally sexually harassed in the street, while 18 per cent say they had been both physically and verbally harassed.

It also found that 56 per cent of respondents say they had been physically or verbally sexually harassed - or both - by a stranger in a bar or club, but only 10 per cent say they had made a complaint about the behaviour.